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C. Bendall— History of Nepal and surrounding Kingdoms . [No. 1, 
corded by Kirkpatrick is duly chronicled in V 1 ( Mahfimdri-durbhilcsam - 
bhavati) 25. b. 1 The next date from MSS. is obtained from a MS. in the 
Maharaja’s library noted by myself, but omitted by the Pandit in his 
Catalogue. It is from No. 1648, a MS. of Caraka, I have since sup¬ 
plemented my note by a tracing kindly sent by Colonel Pears. The full 
date is given in the Table. But as the king Ratnadeva is mentioned 
in none of the chronicles, I am inclined to think that he must have 
been a local raja, or a king of Western Nepal. 1 
After Amytadeva my previous lists left one of those gaps which it 
is now most satisfactory to find filled in. The tradition reproduced by 
Wright and Bhagavanlal quite fails here. Kirkpatrick alone gives 
correct, though inadequate, details, which are now supplemented by the 
new chronicle and, what is more important, verified by MSS. 
As to Somesvara-deva, see the Table and note there (p. 25). Kirkpa¬ 
trick’s £ Buz Caum Deo’ of course represents Vijayakamadeva ; his ‘Any 
Mull ’ is a less recognizable equivalent of Arimalla; but in Nepalese 
documents and ^ are easily confused. After the reign of 2 Abhayadeva, 
which, though called by Kirkpatrick ‘ inauspicious,’ was anyhow fairly 
long as a goodly array of MSS. now shows, the chronicles hitherto 
available quite break down. 
Eveu if Jayadeva and Anantadeva were brothers, ^ as Wright 
(p. 162) and Bh. state, the latter certainly did not reign at the same 
time. Two kings whose names, Jayabhima and Jayasahadeva, I have 
taken from the chronicle, 4 intervened; and it is extremely satisfactory 
l Supposing the era to be that of Nepal, which I think probable from the writing. 
* ‘ The great dearth * recorded by Kirkpatrick for this and the previous reign 
are duly registered in our chronicle (25b; plate, fig. 6 . 1. 3), where famine-prices for 
grain are also mentioned. The prices are given in greater detail in (Newari 
portion of chronicle) at fol. 39b for Sapavat 352. 
s The birth-list of the chronicle (V 2 ) makes Ananta not the son of Abhaya, 
but of a certain S'ri-Rajadeva and of Rudramadevl. 
4 Fol. 26a. The whole passage, following on that reproduced in 25b; plate, fig. 6 , 
runs thus: 
II gSJTfttqi ^ ^ *rr I formerly thought this date, 
which, as Dr Kiel horn kindly informs me, corresponds to 7 th June 1255, referred to 
the coronation of Jayabhima ; o spite of the punctuation, which seems not always 
trustworthy in this MS. On re-reading the passage, however, I now consider that 
it must refer to the first shock of the earthquake, which is accordingly stated to 
have lasted at intervals over four months. This accords better with the subsequent 
date, 377, of a MS., once the property of the late Pandit Bhagvanlal Indraji. I 
may here mention that I have made enquiries by letter for this MS. in the Bhagvan¬ 
lal collection of the Bombay Asiatic Society, but without success. From Y3 (fob 36b) 
we learn that in 378 Caitra Jayabhimadeva had become raja, with Jayasipiha (siha- 
malladeva) as yuvaraja. 
